I am by no means an expert for SPARC (more of a PC person) but need to learn
These are specs I know for now. if there is something more needed PLEASE by all means ask and I will more then happly provide (if I know how to)

What do I do
I have found where some say to do a cold boot which I unplugged the server waited 10 seconds and replugged the system and followed the steps with the "Stop+A" etc
I tried looking for the 2005 version but have not found it....tried the beta 2 of 2008 and got the same error

OK as I said previously I am not Sun/SPARC guy. I am a PC guy for I understand POST and blah blah on a PC. SPARCs run differently and understanding it (the hard way) rather quickly for have several of them wasting away resources that can be used. SO I appreciate what your doing and hope to help the endeavor to improve/contribute to the Open Source environment.

To clarify what the document is saying. Turn Sunfrie 280r on "Stop+A" which brings to {ok}. enter command net boot

What is suppose to happen is it to receive an IP configuration from the DHCP server and then . . . (I guess something like a PXE boot with RIS for windows which is remote installation services)

sparcs have obp which basicly does what a bios does...start the computer and load a program(eg the linux kernel).

After entering "boot net" the sparc machine tries to get an ip using an reverse arp request(not dhcp) and then downloads the netboot image from the tftp server(you'll see hex numbers counting up as it is received).

The netboot image is just a sparc executable that includes the linux kernel and an initramfs(mini root filesystem with tools you need to install). So after receiving it the obp just needs to execute it._________________Black Holes are created when God divides by zero!

Update on this matter
I had found that when I booted the SPARC
hit STOP+A
entered command

setenv boot-device cdrom
reset-all

this solved the problem. So this should be added to the virtual "List" of troubleshooting with SPARCs lol

Newest issue is going through the compile of the kernel and available storage blah blah...
Will keep posted information on this matter in the hopes that it will help improve the transition of other SPARCers

Update on this matter
I had found that when I booted the SPARC
hit STOP+A
entered command

setenv boot-device cdrom
reset-all

this solved the problem. So this should be added to the virtual "List" of troubleshooting with SPARCs lol

Newest issue is going through the compile of the kernel and available storage blah blah...
Will keep posted information on this matter in the hopes that it will help improve the transition of other SPARCers

I got the portage and the compile all good and all
using kernel-2.6.24-r8
Issues having now is with
qlogic's QLA2XXX
i believe it is ISP2200
the system goes through normal till hits the adapter and it says
QLOGIC Fibre Channel HBA Driver
Found an ISP2200, irq 18, iobase 0x000007fd00100000
coniguring PCI space
Configuring NVRAM parameters
inconsistent NVRAM detected: checksum=BLAH garbage
verifying loaded RISC code . . .
(long puse, very long pause)
Firmware Image unavailable
Firmware imgaes can be retrieved from ft;//BLAH BLAH BLAH
Failed to initalize adapter

so the system is looking for the kernel which is on SDAx but since the adapter is not detected it wont boot

Hello can anybody help me with a problem with installing Solaris 10 on my SunFire 280R server ??....
The problem that I am having is that solaris 10 will install up until it prompts me to type in my username which it will allow me to do, but then it asks me to type in a password to which I can't type anything into it.
Can anyone give me any reasons for this????.